[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Feature Requests-444708 ] Optional argument for string.strip()

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Feature Requests item #444708, was opened at 2001-07-26 01:35
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
Submitted By: Simon Brunning (brunns)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Optional argument for string.strip()

Initial Comment:
The .split method on strings splits at whitespace by 
default, but takes an optional argument allowing 
splitting by other strings. The .strip method (and its 
siblings), on the other hand, always strip whitespace. 
On more than one occasion I would have found it useful 
if these methods also took an optional argument 
allowing other strings to be stripped. For example, to 
strip, say, asterisks from a string you could do:

>>>fred = '**word**word**'
>>>fred.strip('*')
word**word

If nothing else, this would meany that we have a good 
answer when people ask about a equivalent to 
Perl's 'chomp' function - string.rstrip(os.linesep).

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Comment By: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry (shaleh)
Date: 2002-03-06 14:16

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why is string.replace() not sufficient?


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